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Social media agency We Are Social has produced a ‘word cloud’ showing the most popular topics at tech fest SXSW (it started as a music festival), to be held in Austin next week. Boss Robin Grant says: “The topics of ...

It’s the South By South West music/film/interactive fest in Austin, Texas, next week and BETC Paris is there with a French government-sponsored Start Up Lab offering, among other things, ‘Speed Branding Sessions.’ Looks quite good fun. Won’t be there myself, ...

These days if you have a conversation you seem to become part of a community (which enrages my friend George Parker, among others) but a pretty obvious community is Cosplay, people who like dressing up in outlandish costumers together. And ...

At fist glance The Mayhew Animal Home doesn’t look like a big budget advertiser with recourse to the finest creative talent – but, apparently, it is. We’ve all done it haven’t we? Mayhew may even win an award or three ...

More 2014 football fest: Adidas (an official World Cup sponsor) and agency Iris are out of the blocks quickly with this clever Adizero boot ad cum competition call for entries, Fast or Fail, featuring Lionel Messi in Argentina mode. Leo, ...

Somewhere in Sir John Hegarty’s attic – or maybe adorning one of his walls – will be a photo of him with a Vespa scooter, that style icon of the 1960s that help to shape Britain’s most famous creative (left) ...

The carnage taking place in Syria makes all of us feel bad – while, at the same time, we recognise (or should) that intervening militarily in Middle Eastern countries is a recipe for further disaster – think Afghanistan and, especially, ...

Pablo Del Campo (left), the founder of Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi in Buenos Aires and regional creative director of Saatchi in Latin America for the past seven years, has been appointed worldwide creative director of the network. The post ...

London mini-marcoms group Karmarama Communications seems to be winning a new account every other week at the moment (the last being General Mills) and it’s just been appointed to handle Brussels-based online payment service Ogone after a pitch lasting a ...

The quality of fragrance advertising seems to be on the up; WPP’s new bespoke Chanel agency Plus produced an interesting campaign featuring footage of Marilyn Monroe before Christmas and now DAN, the digital bit of TBWA Paris, has produced another ...